Do not vote for a friend of Israel, Lawson tells Europeans

“…In the name of beleaguered Palestinians and the Syrians or any other people that Israel is determined to dominate or crash, as well as for the sake of your own humanity… in the upcoming European Parliamentary elections, do not vote for a friend of Israel,” Lawson said in a video posted on Intifada Palestine website.

The European Parliament elections are to be held May 22 to 25 in the European Union. A total of 751 seats are up for grabs in the 8th pan-European parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979.

Lawson, a retired commercials director, told the Europeans that the European Parliament is “the legislative body that will be determining your future” and the future of Palestinians subject to Israeli atrocities.

He said the Europeans should avoid voting for those who “condone” and refuse to “condemn” the Israeli regime’s crimes against Palestinian people.

“Just as it is in America and Britain, very few people can retain any kind of representative position in Europe, unless they are prepared to turn a blind eye to the appalling way that Israelis behave the Palestinians and many of its neighbors,” said Lawson.

He said “1,500 parliamentarians and policymakers” in Europe are “friends of Israel.”

Lawson singled out the Brussels-based European Friends of Israel (EFI), saying it “draws its members together to increase the relationship between Europe and Israel, to expand and reinforce European support of Israel.”

On Thursday, Palestinians marked the 66th anniversary of the Nakba Day (the Day of Catastrophe), when their land was occupied by Israel.

On May 15, 1948, Israeli forces displaced some 750,000 Palestinians, forcing them to flee to different neighboring countries.

Israeli soldiers also wiped nearly 500 Palestinian villages and towns off the map, leaving an estimated total of 4.7 million Palestinian refugees hoping for an eventual return to their homeland.

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